Finally! Time to taper
On Sunday, I finally got to my last long run of 20 miles, and now there are less than three weeks until marathon day. And that last 20 miler was a grunt!!! Work and other commitments forced me to miss a couple runs and cram a couple other together so I was already tired and sore before I started. I didn't care how long it took. I was just glad to finish.
I have had better trainings with more miles and faster paces. I've done a lot more speed work in the other training plans, with the exception of New York. However, I am happy with how things turned out this time around, and I can't make up for anything missed or lost in the last 13 weeks. Now, I will be dialing back the miles over next two weeks, and with any luck my legs will totally recover by race day.
Columbus will be marathon #5 in 20 months. There are people that race more frequently than that, but I sure am not going to ever be one of them. I already decided that my next marathon will be Chicago in October of 2012, and I'll put everything I have into that to see if I can't make it back to Boston in April 2014. For now, I'm beat. I'm looking forward to recovering enough over the next three weeks to be respectable in Columbus, but I am running it for fun and not a PR.
All that said, I didn't feel a tug when registration for the 2012 Boston Marathon opened a couple weeks ago. My 3:17:29 qualified me for 2012 had I chosen to register. However, with the new registration process, I don't know yet if my BQ time was fast enough to have gotten me in. And now it doesn't matter because I was able to resist that tug and not go and do something totally insane...like try to get in.
I am looking forward to this one because Columbus is a great city, and they put on a good marathon. Plus, starting a marathon with fireworks should be very cool!
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